The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-13

else. BY his account this gentleman, who
has five besides himself in family, had only
spent SOC. for the past month.
At DeLand part of the shelving in NJ.
! Davis new store fell with terrible crash,
breaking large lot of crockery and glass
ware. Mr.. Davis narrowly escaped being
crushed, for he had just put some goods on
the shelves and walked to the opposite side
OF the room when the crash came. Inc
damage will amount to considerable.
Last Sunday night two negroes had a
shooting scrape near Beresford, and one Of
them had his arm badly shattered. They
were both arrested and arraigned before
Justice jackson, who failed to find any
grounds for complaint against either OF
them. It is thought by some that one or
both of them should have been bound over.
Two prisoners escaped from the county
Jail at St Augustine Sunday morning. The
| Sheriff was giving them breakfast, when
they suddenly assaulted him, and after a
| struggle made their escape They were
pursued by Deputy Quigley, but were not
found. They were both seen on the Tocoi
railroad, but nothing has been heard Of
| them since.
The bridge across the st. Johns river at
| Palatka is the subject Of much comment
about that town. Rumors and counter
rlmors I'LL the air, some betting that 1t will
| go TO the Florida Southern dock and others
| that it will go to the Jacksonville, Tampa
| and Key West dock. Meanwhile the work
OF getting out the timbers and framing goes
steadily on.
A lady in Orlando has received letter
from a friend in Key West, in which she
| writes that an emineut physician there says
| there is absolutely no probability of the vel
low fever being suppressed until winter, by
which time all unacclmated material will be
used up or distributed through the Egmont
! quarantine station, and it can then be
easily stopped.
Some of the citizens of Eustis have in
augurated system of free excursions to
and from Eustis and the different lake
| points. The steamer A. J. Lane will leave
| Astabula at Z a. M, Wednesdays and Satur-
days Of each week, stopping at all landings
| on Little Lake Harris and Lake Harris, Civ
| ing excursiouists several hours in Eustis,
and return the same day
The Baird Bros, with the Cornelia, direct
| from Nassau, were il quarantine at the
Inlet for ffteendays, and arrived at Titus
vile last Tuesday. Owing TO the long delay
they lost part Of their cargo of pineapples,
amounting to 5000. They were in possession
OF health certificate from the American
| Consul at Nassau, but We're, nevertheless,
placed in quarantine at the inlet.
The Oakland post office has had an aston
! tshlng growth of business within the past
few months. The cancellation for the
quarter ending June 80, just past, was
I Sg57 0S; for the corresponding period last
| year but $40 0S, alitule over six times as
| great. The number of registered packages
| for the quarter ending June 80 was 225; for
the same period last year but 81, also over
six times as many.
The registration books for Tampa, closed
~on Wednesday, show 1913 registered voters.
| There are several hundred persons in the
city not eligible for registration, and fully
100 more who failed to register who were
entitled to that privilege, which, with
! large part OF the town not included in the
new corporation, would show that the popu
hlation of Tampa will reach the neighbor-
hood Of 1000, all told.
| Mr.. Riley Johnson's grove near Kissim-
NEE bloomed this spring and set crop of
| fruit. 1t is now blooming again, and will
| yield larger crop of late oranges than he
viii get from his spring poisoning. If
orange growers could ascertain the cause of
| this strange freak, and manage SO as to pro
| duee crop for summer shipment, they
would make much larger returns from sum-
mer than from fall and winter sales.
On Monday last young man, Albert
Shaw, whowas on his way from Chipley to
Carnpbellton, wasstruck by lightning on the
roadside two miles from the latter town
1t appears chat he had taken shelter under
tree, and during the thunderstorm of that
| day.was struck by lightning and instantly
killed When found his clothes and shoe
| upon the left side and foot were entirely
torn from his,body, and the shoe of the left
foot was found some distance off
The city officials of Sanford believe they
| have some clue in the matter of the dead
baby foundthere on Friday last In order
that the merits of their suspicious may be
tested, Solicitor Beggs was sent for and
Judge Shrine opened his court. A jury was
| summoned preparatory to holding a court
of inquiry and inquest Owing, however,
to the inability to have all the witnesses de-
! sired by the officials the case was postponed
until $50 Tuesday morning. A guard will
be kept over the premises Of suspected par
| ties until an investigation is made, and, in
fact, no stone will be left unturned until the
matter is fully cleared up, if it can be
cleared at all
Jacksonville Times Union: Some months
ago the Florida State Mercantile Agency
was started in this city, che object being to
| Go general collecting business, and TO pub
lish all persons in their "black list" who de-
lIolined to pay such bills as the agency saw
fit to send to them Their business was con
Quoted at No, 5536 West Bay street. and
they went around the city and they got
numerous subscribers to this ''black list"
which was TO be published monthly for the
! general protection of merchants and others
After getting good many annual subscrib-
ers to the publication, number of whom
pad in advance, they contracted with the
Tunes mon job Office to print their pam
phlet for them One or two issues
was properly printed and promptly deliv-
cred to the agency under the impression
that they were responsible, but they have
\ disappeared from the city, the Times Union
is out the amount of its printing BILL and
| the subscribers of the publication, who paid
in advance, are out the amount paid in, ex-
l'cepting one or two issues, and such irrespon-
,sible and unprincipled men as these set
themselves up in venture to attempt to
| build up or pull down our citizens as they
see fit Z. j. Douglass was advertised as
the business manager of the institution, and
contracted for the printing bill with most
solemn promises He skipped the town
without even promising to pay his bills, and
we understand that he is now in Chattanoo-
gu, Tenn.